Shobha Somnath Ki
| Shobha Somnath Ki | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Indian soap opera Historical drama |
| Created by | Vikas Kapoor |
| Developed by | Vikas Kapoor |
| Written by | Vikas Kapoor |
| Starring |
Vikramjeet Virk Ashnoor Kaur |
| Theme music composer | Raju Singh |
| Opening theme | "Shobha Somnath ki" |
| Composer(s) | Raju Singh Ravindra Jain Surya Raj Kamal |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 139 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Vikas Kapoor (First 65 Episodes) Vikas Sethi Siddhart Kumar Tewary |
| Location(s) | Mumbai |
| Cinematography | Deepak Pandey |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Candlestick Media Swastik Pictures |
| Release | |
| Original network | Zee TV |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original release | 20 June 2011 – 26 February 2012 |
| Website | www |
Shobha Somnath Ki (English: Shobha of Somnath) is an Indian historical television drama series on Zee TV based on Acharya Chatursen's Hindi novel Somnath Mahalay. It tells the story of a young girl called Shobha amid the infamous raids in western India by Sultan Maḥmūd of Ghazni in the early 11th century.
The show replaced another historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani on Zee TV. Initially, the drama was produced by Contiloe Entertainment. However, due to Veer Shivaji on Colors TV and Mahabharat (2013 TV series) on Star Plus, Contiloe Telefilms handed over the reins to Swastik Pictures. The show was shown every day for some months, and was changed to being broadcast bi-weekly due to decreased popularity. Another show Hitler Didi replaced the time slot when Shobha Somnath Ki was shown (starting 7 November 2011). On 12 November 2011, the broadcast time was changed to weekends only. It aired its last episode on 26 February 2012.
In the book, Shobhna was a Balvidhva, Brahmin girl; her father Krishna Swami was one of the "adhikari" in the famous Somnath temple. Chaula was chief dancer Ganga's daughter, later revealed to be Dadda Chalukya's daughter. Later on Shabhna lives with Chaula as her close friend. The drama shows Shobha as the daughter of Kirit Chalukya (brother of Dadda Chalukya) and eventually a princess of Bharuch.
As per the book, Dadda Chalukya used to believe a lot on Rudrabhadra: he got a son, due to his blessings. Dadda Chalukya got Bharucha's kingdom due to Rudrabhadra's blessings, he gave his first daughter Chaula to Goddess Tripursundari on Rudrabhadra's advice, but Gang Sarvagya interfered and she was given to God Somnath. As a result, Rudrabhadra was very angry. In the drama - Dadda Chalukya and Rudrabhadra are shown as great rivals and Rudhrabhadra one of the main parallel antagonist to Ghaznavi. Moreover, Gayathri Devi (wife of Dadda Chaulukya) was the person who got blessings to get a baby (without Dadda's permission). A "girl" was born not a boy and the girl is Chaula. Rudhrabhadra got a promise from Gayathri that at the age of 16 she must be given to Goddess Tripurasundari but she refused to do so later on when Chaula reached the age of 16.
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